ASAA Presidents’ Prize
Past Winners
2008 – Dr Damien Evans, ‘Putting Angkor on the Map: a New Survey of a Khmer “Hydraulic City” in Historical and Theoretical Context (University of Sydney).
2007 – Dr Wasan Panyagaew, ‘Moving Dai: Towards an anthropology of people “living in place” in the borderlands of the upper Mekong’. (Australian National University)
2006 – Dr Katharine McKinnon, ‘Locating Post-Development Subjects: discourses of intervention and identification in the highlands of northern Thailand’
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Dr Romit Dasgupta (Curtin University of Technology), “‘Crafting’ Masculinity: Negotiating Masculine Identities in the Japanese Workplace’
2005 – Dr Adam Bowles, “Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India” (La Trobe University)
2004 - Dr Kaosar Afsana (Edith Cowan University) for her thesis "Power, Knowledge and Childbirth Practices: An Ethnographic Exploration in Bangladesh"
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Dr Kama Maclean (La Trobe University) for her thesis "Power and Pilgrimage: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954."
2003 - Dr Linda Rae Bennett (University of Queensland) for her thesis "Dialectics of Desire and Danger: maidenhood, sexuality and modernity in Mataram, eastern Indonesia."
2002 - Dr Beatrice Trefalt (Murdoch University) for her thesis "Unexpected Returns: stragglers of the Imperial Army and memories of the Second World War in Japan, 1950-1975."
2001 - Dr Michael Laffan (University of Sydney) for his thesis "The Umma Below the Winds: Mecca, Cairo, Reformist Islam and a Conceptualization of Indonesia."
2000 - Dr Koichi Iwabuchi (University of Western Sydney) for his thesis "Returning to Asia: Japan in the Cultural Dynamics of Globalization, Localization and Asianization."
1999 - Dr Michael Barr (University of Queensland) for his thesis "Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man."
1998 - Dr Seung-Ho Kwon (University of New South Wales) for his thesis "Control and Conflict: the Historical Development of Labour Management within the Hyundai Business Group, 1946-1995."
1997 - Dr Mark Hudson (Australian National University), for his thesis entitled "Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis on the Japanese Island, 400 BC to AC 1400."